If you’re looking for some healthy nut-free options, be inspired by these healthy sunflower seed butter recipes – all gluten and dairy-free, Paleo-friendly and without any refined sugar! In this day and age of increasing numbers of people with nut allergies, what do you do? Well, you turn to nut-free alternatives, like tahini (sesame seed […]
How to stay Whole30 compliant while camping
You’ve decided to do a Whole30, and then you realize that you had plans to go camping during that 30 days. What do you do? Normally camping is a time where diets and healthy food choices fly out the window because eating outdoors just tastes so good! And you excuse yourself by saying you’ve been […]
Henry and his blue cake
First of all, apologies for kind of being missing in action for the past few months. It’s been a busy time for us … At the beginning of June my in-laws arrived for a visit in the US, we met them in Chicago and drove along Route 66 with them for 12 days. 2800-odd miles […]
‘Toothless’ cupcakes
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post about cooking with kids, but do not fear, the kids and I have been spending a reasonable amount of time in the kitchen together. Our regular ‘kids cooking’ night has gotten a lot of good feedback – especially when we’ve invited someone around and the kids […]
The Great British Baking Show
One thing we’ve become accustomed to while living in the US is binge-watching TV shows. Grant and I have gone through all the episodes of shows such as House, Hawaii Five-O (in anticipation of our upcoming trip to Hawaii – yay!), NCIS and other drama series. I also love watching shows such as Alton […]
An auspicious occasion and a request
Today marks a very special occasion for me. As of today, I have now updated all the photos on this website with (hopefully) more artistic and better (!) photos of all the yummy food that I’ve been making. Can everyone do a happy dance with me to celebrate, please?! For those who have been along […]
My second Whole30
I have just completed my second Whole30 – and have learnt a lot more about myself and my relationship with food than I ever thought possible. For those of you who don’t know what the Whole30 is, check out their website. Basically, it’s a 30 day reset, where you eat whole, nutritious foods and […]
Pizza and monster cookies
What do pizza and monster cookies have to do with each other? Well, that’s the combination that Abby and Henry came up with this week for their turn at cooking dinner for us. Abby asked me at the beginning of the week what Italian food I could have, being on the Whole30 and such, and […]
Winter camping food
Call us crazy, call us whatever, but for the past two years the family has gone camping at Christmas time. For all you Southern Hemisphere people, that probably doesn’t sound like a very big deal. For all us Northern Hemisphere people, just one word. Snow. And lots of it. And did I mention, we camp […]
Our weekly routine
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about cooking with kids. Maybe you think I’ve forgotten about them? Well, I haven’t. And they’ve been cooking up a storm! You see, we’ve started a new routine in our house. Once a week, the kids cook us a meal. One week Abby cooks the main course and […]